Kids
Humor
Why Didn't Noah Swat Both Mosquitoes?
Plus Other Humorous Stories For Clergy
A minister asked a group of children in Sunday school, "Why do
you love God?" The best response was, "I don't know. I guess it
just runs in the family."
A little girl was saying her prayers one evening at her
bedside. Her aunt was visiting and heard the prayer. She
commented to the little girl: "It's a pleasure to hear you saying
your prayers so well. You speak so earnestly and seriously, and
you seem to really mean what you say, and care about it too."
"Well, auntie," the little girl said, "you should hear me
gargle!"
On my 30th birthday, the children's department leaders asked
me to come there during Sunday school because the children wanted
to sing their birthday song for me. When I got there, they sang,
and then one child presented me an empty dish which he explained
was for my birthday offering -- one penny for each year. I did
have a quarter and a nickel but no pennies. The teacher suggested
I change the 30 cents in the regular offering dish -- which I
did, finding enough pennies there. She explained that the
children liked to count as the pennies were put in one by one.
And they did, and we had a good time because "Dr. Rupert is so
old."
That afternoon we had a meeting at the church at which several
sets of parents were in attendance. They all seemed to have
gotten the message that "Dr. Rupert took 30 pennies out of our
offering to put in his birthday offering!"
H.R.
The youngster had been naughty. Her father had given her a
hard time over it both by word and punishment. That night when he
turned down the covers on his bed, he found a note on his pillow
which said, in childish scrawl, "Be kind to your children and
they will be kind to you." Signed GOD.
H.R.
The youngster wanted to use the Bible name "Lo" when the class
was saying which Bible name they would like to have. He too, was
a close friend of Jesus who said, "Lo, I will be with you
always."
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you love God?" The best response was, "I don't know. I guess it
just runs in the family."
A little girl was saying her prayers one evening at her
bedside. Her aunt was visiting and heard the prayer. She
commented to the little girl: "It's a pleasure to hear you saying
your prayers so well. You speak so earnestly and seriously, and
you seem to really mean what you say, and care about it too."
"Well, auntie," the little girl said, "you should hear me
gargle!"
On my 30th birthday, the children's department leaders asked
me to come there during Sunday school because the children wanted
to sing their birthday song for me. When I got there, they sang,
and then one child presented me an empty dish which he explained
was for my birthday offering -- one penny for each year. I did
have a quarter and a nickel but no pennies. The teacher suggested
I change the 30 cents in the regular offering dish -- which I
did, finding enough pennies there. She explained that the
children liked to count as the pennies were put in one by one.
And they did, and we had a good time because "Dr. Rupert is so
old."
That afternoon we had a meeting at the church at which several
sets of parents were in attendance. They all seemed to have
gotten the message that "Dr. Rupert took 30 pennies out of our
offering to put in his birthday offering!"
H.R.
The youngster had been naughty. Her father had given her a
hard time over it both by word and punishment. That night when he
turned down the covers on his bed, he found a note on his pillow
which said, in childish scrawl, "Be kind to your children and
they will be kind to you." Signed GOD.
H.R.
The youngster wanted to use the Bible name "Lo" when the class
was saying which Bible name they would like to have. He too, was
a close friend of Jesus who said, "Lo, I will be with you
always."
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